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BIAL Airport Concession Agreement, Its future exapansion, UDF charges, No infusion of Capital by Promotors

14 September 2013 - 4:48pm — Sanjeev

Here we have the Concession Agrement signed between BIAL Managment and GOI on 5th July'2004

Artilce 5.2.1 and 5.2.2 of page 22 gives Exclusivity :

Fresh rent-seeking avenue for BESCOM staff

12 September 2013 - 6:56pm — Chandru.p

Most apartment complexes have so far been tapping from their common area power connections for the in-house utility service centres (kirana shop, ironing shop, etc), which are generally outsourced to local vendors. That way, they have been enjoying the benefit if domestic tariffs for the power needs of these services.

Maaru - Mola - Still the length measuring standard used

11 September 2013 - 8:27am — Vasanth

In Markets of Bangalore or else where in Karnataka, for measuring the length of flowers, people still use age old 'Maaru', a full length of the arm, or 'Mola', half length of arm and do lot of cheating. None uses a metre scale and measure the same.

LRT for CBD?

9 September 2013 - 10:01pm — srinidhi

BMTC plays a major role in providing the only PT option for Bangalore. However even with busses there is a section of the society which swears by the direction based routing as a solution for better and faster PT within the city, instead of the destination based one which is what we have predominantly now.

State Govt Jobs - Why not go for recruitment every year?

8 September 2013 - 4:26am — kbsyed61

Source - Deccan Herald

Suburban Railways, Transportation

5 September 2013 - 9:56pm — n

Branching off from the "raging" debates in previous posts as an objective break seems to be required.

Wonder what happened to TTMCs

5 September 2013 - 7:50pm — marsdon

Hi, I was wondering what happened to TTMC's or Bus stations. I stay near K R Puram. I feel there should be a Bus Stand or TTMC in KR Puram so that it can be well connected to various parts of city. For e.g If they introduce a BMTC bus from K R Puram to Whitefield via Bhattarahalli or via Budigere Cross. Half the people would prefer this since this less crowded.

Suburban Rail Portal - Inviting Suggestions!

5 September 2013 - 7:39pm — kbsyed61

Dear Prajagale,

I am sure, all of you must have seen an update from our friend Sanjeev on progress of Suburban Rail project. There is a likelihood that we could hear about the introduction of 1 or 2 services rolled out under this project proposal in next 2-3 months.